| Date | Title | Description |
| 08.10.2025 | L&T Finance Ltd. Launches 'Pitch Point,' a Competition for AI Startups Ahead of RAISE' 25 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
L&T Finance Ltd. (LTF), formerly known as L&T Finance Holdings Limited, one of the leading Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in the country, is pleased to launch ‘Pitch Point,’ a competition for AI s... |
| 01.10.2025 | OnFinance AI Secures $4.2M, Targets US Expansion in BFSI Compliance Revolution | OnFinance AI, a leading generative AI platform for the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry, recently closed a $4.2 million Pre-Series A funding round. Peak XV’s Surge spearheaded this investment. The Bengaluru-based f... |
| 28.09.2025 | OnFinance AI raises $4.2 M Pre-series A funding from Peak XV’s Surge | A Pre-Series A funding round has raised $4.2 million for OnFinance AI, a generative AI platform designed specifically for the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry. Peak XV’s Surge led the round, and present investors I... |
| 19.09.2025 | Amaani raises $3 M Seed funding from Peak XV’s Surge | Peak XV’s Surge has invested $3 million in seed funding for Amaani, a new-age consumer company that is reimagining beauty and wellness in the Middle East. This is the fund’s first consumer and seed investment in the MENA region.
The money r... |
| 05.08.2025 | Qbeast Secures $7.6M: Revolutionizing Data Lakehouse Performance | Qbeast, a Barcelona-based data optimization firm, secured $7.6 million in seed funding. This capital infusion tackles the "hidden tax" of big data lakehouses. Its multi-dimensional indexing technology streamlines data queries. It ... |
| 04.08.2025 | Qbeast gets $7.6M in funding to streamline data lakehouses queries with multidimensional indexing
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| 04.08.2025 | Qbeast Raises $7.6M in Seed Funding | Qbeast, a Barcelona, Spain-based data optimization platform provider, raised $7.6m in seed funding round.
The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India), with participation from HWK Tech Investment and Elaia Partners.... |
| 01.08.2025 | SixSense, ILine secure early-stage funding | SixSense founders Akanksha Jagwani (left) and Avni Agarwal
AI platform for semiconductor manufacturing SixSense and EV-focused logistics marketplace ILine have secured funding in separate early-stage rounds, the companies said.
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| 01.08.2025 | India Digest: SixSense, Metaforms raise funds led by Peak XV, Surge | - |
| 09.07.2025 | Brainfish: $6.4 Million Pre-Series A Raised For AI-Based Customer Experience Platform | Brainfish, an AI platform that enhances user interaction with digital products, has raised $6.4 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Prosus Ventures, bringing its total funding to $10 million. Existing investors, including Peak XV... |
| 09.07.2025 | Brainfish Lands $6.4M Pre-Series A Led by Prosus Ventures | Brainfish, the AI platform reinventing how users interact with digital products, has raised $6.4 million USD in a pre-Series A round led by Prosus Ventures, bringing its total funding to $10 million. Existing investors, including Peak XV’s ... |
| 03.04.2023 | Dozer exits stealth to help any developer build real-time data apps ‘in minutes’ | Data has emerged as one of the world’s greatest resources, underpinning everything from video-recommendation engines and digital banking, to the burgeoning AI revolution. But in a world where data has become increasingly distributed across ... |
| 19.09.2022 | Ex-Facebook engineers’ machine learning firm secures $2.3m | Artificial IntelligenceInvestmentsNewsStartups
Xavier Kong · 1d ago · 1 min readEx-Facebook engineers’ machine learning firm secures $2.3m
TrueFoundry, a US-headquartered machine learning startup, has raised US$2.3 million in a seed round l... |
| 23.06.2022 | Sequoia’s Surge To Raise Seed Stage Investment Ceiling To $3 Mn | Previously, Surge invested in seed rounds in the range between $1 Mn - $2 Mn; it will also now fund early stage startups for Pre-Series A rounds
The move comes shortly after Sequoia India and SEA announced a $2.85 Bn fund despite the bearis... |
| 22.06.2022 | Sequoia India and Southeast Asia broadens check range for early-stage Surge program | Sequoia India and Southeast Asia is broadening the range of its check size for the Surge program as the storied venture firm attempts to make its seed investments more “relevant for a larger set of founders,” it said Thursday.
The venture f... |
| 21.06.2022 | Sequoia’s Surge raises funding ceiling to $3m | InvestmentsNewsStartups
Kul Bhushan · 17h ago · 2 min readSequoia’s Surge raises funding ceiling to $3m
Sequoia Capital India’s Surge has expanded the funding cap for its startups to US$3 million, up from the current US$1 million to US$2 mi... |
| 10.02.2022 | SaaS recruitment platform Manatal raises $5.1 million in funding to transform hiring globally | The startup is transforming how SMEs recruit by using an AI-powered Applicant Tracking System, allowing companies to hire faster, better and save costs
LONDON, UK – News Direct – 10 February 2022 – Recruitment and onboarding SaaS platform M... |
| 02.02.2022 | Data Snapshot: Seed stage deals more than doubled for India agrifood startups in FY21 | Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature in which we analyze agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. Click here for more research from AgFunder and sign up to our newsletter to receive alerts about new re... |
| 25.01.2022 | Sequoia India Unveils 20 Startups in Surge’s Sixth Cohort Including two Bangladeshi Startups 10 Minute School and Shajgoj | Bangladeshi startups 10 Minute School and Shajgoj get into the latest cohort of Sequoia India’s accelerator program Surge.
Surge, Sequoia Capital India’s accelerator program, has unveiled the 20 early-stage startups selected for its sixth ... |
| 24.01.2022 | Surge Unveils 20 More Startups It Is Backing To Make The Big Time | Three years almost to the day after launching Surge, Sequoia Capital India is today unveiling the sixth cohort of its scale-up program for startups based in India and the wider Asia Pacific region. The program will feature 20 new technology... |
| 30.06.2021 | Durianpay Joins Sequoia’s Surge Rapid Scale-Up Program | AC Ventures’ portfolio company, Durianpay, officially joins Sequoia’s Surge, a rapid scale-up program. Durianpay is one of 23 selected startups in the fifth cohort with total funding $55 million from Surge and co-investors. |
| 29.06.2021 | Sequoia Capital India unveils fifth group of startups for Surge | Sequoia Capital India has selected 23 early-stage startups for its fifth cohort of Surge, its accelerator program for India and Southeast Asia, at a time when dealflow activity is at its peak in the region.
The new cohort, Surge’s largest t... |
| 14.06.2021 | Community monetization platform Convosight raises $9 million led by Qualgro | Advertisment
Speaking on the development, Tamanna Dhamija, Co-founder & CFA, said:
“We were able to use technology and analytics to create value for brands to co-exist with our communities, giving us revenue, and brands a quantifiable... |
| 25.04.2021 | 10 Global Accelerator Programs That Could Be Excellent Opportunities For Bangladeshi Founders | 1. Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley-based accelerator program. Founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Morris, YC is considered to be one of the top startup accelerator programs in the ... |
| 25.03.2021 | Sequoia closes $195 million for its second seed fund to back promising tech startups in India and Southeast Asia | Sequoia Capital India announced today it has closed a $195 million seed fund to back promising tech startups across India and Southeast Asia. The announcement comes two years after the firm launched Surge to help daring founders from India ... |
| 25.03.2021 | Sequoia Capital India announces new $195M seed fund | Leading venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India has closed a new $195 million seed fund to invest in very early-stage startups.
This latest seed fund will focus on Sequoia’s Surge programme which was launched in 2019 to offers $1-2 milli... |
| 17.12.2020 | Epsilo bags US$ 2M in funding | Founded in July 2019 by Quang Tran, Epsilo is an e-commerce SaaS startup that offers a marketing platform that helps e-commerce marketers and category managers provide effective advertising operations across all the major online retail plat... |
| 25.11.2020 | Sequoia’s Surge selects 17 startups for its fourth cohort | Sequoia’s accelerator program Surge has selected 17 startups based out of India, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia and Australia for its fourth cohort.
The 16-week long program which kicked off from November 19, comprises startups across segmen... |
| 13.09.2020 | Trell raises USD 11.4M led KTB Network | Bengaluru located startup Trell, which is a video first experience discovery platform announced in late August 2020, that it has secured USD 11.4 million in series A financing round. The round was led by KTB Network. |
| 30.07.2020 | Dollars down, deals up as investors change tack: India Agrifood Startup Investment Report 2020 | AgFunder today publishes the latest edition of the India Agrifood Startup Investment Report, its annual analysis of the latest agtech and foodtech funding trends in the world’s second-largest country.
Put together with the help of our frien... |
| 17.07.2020 | 5 ASEAN startups tackling the messy middle of the agrifood value chain | While the bulk of agrifoodtech VC funding in Southeast Asia went to downstream categories in 2019, startups sitting in the middle of the value chain are increasingly attracting interest from investors.
According to AgFunder’s first-ever ASE... |
| 12.06.2020 | SaaS tracking company, Quolum, has announced a $2.75 million seed round | As companies continue to stack up subscriptions, Quolum wants to help them understand the data
This week, Quolum announced it has raised $2.75 million in seed funding to help grow its SaaS-focused business.
The funding round was led by Surg... |
| 27.04.2020 | Sequoia picks 7 Indian startups for its third Surge cohort | Sequoia Capital has announced its third Surge cohort and has selected 15 startups based in Southeast Asia and India for the 16-week long program.
Given the travel ban and lockdown imposed in many countries to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, ... |
| 24.04.2020 | Bijak nets $12m Series A funding to update India’s ag commodities trade | Indian agri commodities trading platform Bijak has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by RTP Global. Existing investors Omnivore, Omidyar Network, and Better Capital also took part, along with Sequoia Capital India’s early-stage pro... |
| 17.12.2019 | Sequoia, Omidyar in first Indian agritech bet with $2.5m seed for ag trading platform Bijak | Bijak, a B2B platform for agricultural commodities, on Tuesday revealed its raise of over $2.5 million in seed funding.
Investors included Omnivore and Better Capital, along with Omidyar Network India and Sequoia Capital India’s rapid scale... |
| 10.10.2019 | Lending Protocol Founders to Launch 'Neo-Bank' Offering Interest on USDC | The founders of lending protocol Nuo are launching a “neo-bank” to attract more retail users.
Varun Deshpande, Ratnesh Ray and Siddharth Verma – who launched the Nuo protocol in 2018 – are now launching a new digital banking platform called... |
| 23.08.2019 | Google Indonesia’s Henky Prihatna to join Northstar | Henky Prihatna is departing Google after over almost a decade, KrASIA has learned, to join the Singapore-headquartered private equity firm Northstar Group in October. It’s not yet clear what title he’ll hold at Northstar.
Prihatna’s most re... |
| 22.04.2019 | Vietnamese video live-streaming app Uiza raises USD 1.5 million | Vietnamese video and live-streaming app Uiza raised USD 1.5 million from Surge, an early-stage startup accelerator program launched by Sequoia Capital, VN Express reports.
Backed by ESP Capital and Framgia Inc, Uiza is an API platform for v... |
| 20.04.2019 | Sequoia picks 8 Indian startups in first cohort for ‘Surge’ accelerator program | Three months after announcing its first early-stage accelerator program Surge, the venture capital firm Sequoia India has finally picked up the first cohort of startups.
Eight Indian startups, out of 17 startups, have been chosen for the fi... |
| 19.04.2019 | ShopUp Gets Into Sequoia India’s Accelerator Program Surge And Picks Up $1.5M In New Funding | ShopUp, the Dhaka-based startup that helps micro, small and medium businesses, and home-based entrepreneurs run their businesses using Facebook and automate their online sales and get access to microloans, has been selected for the first co... |
| 19.04.2019 | Sequoia reveals first cohort for its ‘Surge’ accelerator program in India and Southeast Asia | Back in January, Sequoia India announced plans for its first early-stage startup accelerator program in India and Southeast Asia, and today the firm revealed the first cohort of 17 startups.
To recap, the program — which is called Surge — g... |
| 02.04.2019 | Updated: Rajan Anandan moves from Google to join Sequoia Capital India as MD | Google India and South East Asia head Rajan Anandan has quit after serving eight years at the tech giant. Anandan has been known for expanding Google’s presence in the region and several angel investments in budding startups.
Anandan will c... |
| 01.04.2019 | Google’s head of Southeast Asia and India is leaving the company | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Rajan Anandan, the Vice President of Google’s Southeast Asia and India operations, is leaving the company after more than eight years w... |
| 01.04.2019 | Google’s head of Southeast Asia and India is leaving the company | Rajan Anandan, the Vice President of Google’s Southeast Asia and India operations, is leaving the company after more than eight years with the firm, the company said on Tuesday. Google added that it is looking for a replacement for Anandan’... |
| 23.01.2019 | Sequoia goes after early-stage with an accelerator program in India and Southeast Asia | Sequoia India is going deep into early-stage investing after it announced an accelerator program, Surge, which is focused on fledging startups in India and Southeast Asia, the two regions that it covers.
It’s been nearly six months since Se... |
| - | LambdaTest Secures $6 Mn Funding From Sequoia Capital India’s Surge | Cloud-based browser testing platform LambdaTest has raised $6 Mn in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. Blume Ventures, Entrée Capital and Leo Capital also participated in the round, along with Gokul Rajaram and Ramakant S... |
| - | Sequoia Capital India’s Surge Selects 23 Startups For 5th Cohort | Sequoia Capital India’s startup scale-up program, Surge, announced its fifth and largest cohort of 23 early-stage startups, with funding totalling $55 Mn.
“We are incredibly proud of all 23 companies who have joined Surge 05 and the founder... |
| - | 12 Indian Startups Make The Cut For Sequoia Surge 04 | Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, on Wednesday (November 25), announced the names of the 17 startups shortlisted for the fourth cohort of the Surge programme which kicked off online on November 19.
Like Surge 03, Surge 04 will run entir... |
| - | Sequoia Capital Introduces Second Cohort For Its Accelerator Programme Surge | Venture Capital firm Sequoia Capital India, on Tuesday, has finally announced the second cohort of its accelerator programme Surge 02, which started off on September 23, 2019, to help early-stage startups in India and south-East Asia.
Surge... |
| - | Sequoia Surge 03 Accelerator Programme To Be Held Online | With coronavirus or Covid-19 pandemic, social distancing has become the new norm. In line with this, Sequoia Capital India has turned the third edition of its accelerator programme Surge into a completely virtual event. Surge 03 is schedule... |
| - | Meet The 8 Indian Startups From First Cohort Of Sequoia Surge | The Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, after two months of announcing its startup accelerator and incubation programme Surge, has released the list of 17 startups selected in the first cohort, of which eight are based out of India.
As pa... |
| - | Sequoia India Launches Accelerator And Incubator Programme, Surge | Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India has introduced its startup accelerator and incubation programme called Surge.
In a blog post, Shailendra Singh, MD at Sequoia Capital India said, “Surge is a rapid scale-up programme for startups, ... |
| - | Meet The 10 Indian Startups That Are Part Of Sequoia Surge’s 06 Cohort | Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, on November 25, announced the names of the 20 startups shortlisted for the Sixth Cohort of the Surge programme.
While Indian startups formed the bulk of the Sixth Cohort, 10 home-grown startups made the... |
| - | East Ventures, Surge lead Indonesian healthtech firm’s $4.3m seed round | Consumer TechInvestmentsNewsStartups
Xavier Kong · 1d ago · 1 min readEast Ventures, Surge lead Indonesian healthtech firm’s $4.3m seed round
Indonesian healthtech platform Diri Care secured US$4.3 million in seed funding in a round jointly... |
